Libertarian Girl

Lew Rockwell writes:
“Today? The president moves about like Caesar Augustus, with a vast, graded court of civil and military aides, doctors, secretaries, valets, hairdressers, makeup artists, bodyguards, drivers, baggage handlers, cooks, food tasters, Praetorian guards, snipers, centurions, bulletproof limos, a portable hospital, and an armored rostrum. And that’s when he travels in the United States.
When [...]

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Driving across the country provides you with thinking time about issues that you normally wouldn’t dwell on. One of these involves rest areas.

I noticed when I entered Iowa that a “Welcome Center” greeted me that was more of the nature of something you’d find at the site of a Southern plantation than something you’d expect [...]

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(I’m in Illinois for the holidays, so I thought I’d focus on the Land of Lincoln for a few blog entries starting today.)
“Downstate Illinois,” as it’s referred to by Chicago reporters, is abuzz because FutureGen, the state-of-the-art coal-fired-yet-environmentally-friendly power plant has found its home: Mattoon, Illinois beat out nearby Tuscola, Ilinois and two locations in [...]

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The federal government shut down my bank, Netbank, a few months ago, and ING Direct subsequently bought out Netbank.
I just got an email signed by the FDIC saying that I should not be writing any more paper checks from my Netbank account. However, out of the goodness of their heart, ING (I’m not [...]

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Wifi. It was fun while it lasted. Sipping on a caffe mocha while surfing the net in the airport or while studying for final exams. How convenient. How nice. How over.
The SAFE Act passed the House of Representatives by a spectacular vote of 409-2 (of course, one of the two dissents was my man Ron [...]

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A building in my apartment complex burned to the ground tonight. My building was unharmed, but it is very unsettling to have such an uncommon, horrible occurrence happen right next to your home, which is supposed to serve as the ultimate safe haven. It makes you think about things you don’t normally think about.
At least [...]

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I attended a lecture last night given by Bettina Greaves, an economist from the Austrian School, who studied under Ludwig von Mises. Ms. Greaves is a lovely lady who said she was happy to speak to young people (the lecture was at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and gave us her email [...]

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No wonder Tax Hike Mike Huckabee doesn’t want to get rid of all that bureaucracy in Washington (and in fact, wants to create more). Until she quit to work on his presidential campaign, Huckabee’s daughter Sarah worked for what Republicans have traditionally found to be the most bureaucratic and unnecessary agency, the federal Department of [...]

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